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Show OO SCHOOL P1BLEM BEING DISCUSSED Detroit, Mich., Feb. 23. Two questions ques-tions which for some years have been under consideration of American educators edu-cators occupied the sessions of tho forty-sixth annual meeting of tho National Na-tional Education Association of the department de-partment of superintendence here today. to-day. They were tho Improvement of educational conditions in rural communities com-munities and the dividing of school courses into two six year periods, elementary ele-mentary and advanced. Discussing tho latter problem, Charles H. Judd, director of the Unl-vorslty Unl-vorslty of Chicago's school of education, educa-tion, said in part: "The upper elementary grades are being departmentalized and the courses cours-es are being greatly enriched. Within tho high school there Is also urgent need for re-oroganizatlon. The four years work in high school, as at present pres-ent arranged, are inadequate to give tho student a general survey of human hu-man experience. General Reorganization Needed. "Conditions are ripe for a general reorganization through the development develop-ment of tho junior high school plan, which will provide a continuous rational ra-tional schemo of education for the : 'j "in "xi-u -y . individual student" More than four thousand persona thus far have been enrolled with the prospects that the attendance will pass the five thousand mark. Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Milwaukee Mil-waukee arc contenders for the next meeting. |